"Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But Regina V. Ashe initiates events both frightening and unpredictable...
Just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead in her Middle Temple chambers. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended: her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh and his team narrow the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexiteis of intrigue and evil."
Genres
- Mystery
- Detective and mystery stories
- Police
- Death
- Women lawyers
- Fiction
- Investigation
- Adam Dalgliesh (Fictitious character)
- Murder
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- Dalgliesh, adam (fictitious character), fiction
- London (england), fiction
- Dalgliesh, Adam (personnage fictif)
- Large type books
- Romans policiers
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- English literature
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